Son of George Henry Madge and Amelia Ann Rhoda Morris of Okehampton, Devonshire, England.
During the First World War, he enlisted on 2 August 1914 in the Royal Army Service Corps of the British Army, regimental number M-279110. He was wounded in action in France in September 1915 and brought back to England. He suffered a motorbike accident in mid-September 1916 and underwent a long convalescence. He was demobilized on 25 February 1919 as a private, having been demoted from corporal on 30 March 1918.
A steward on board the SS Lachinedoc, he died in hospital in Georgetown, Bahamas, as a result of head injuries.
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